It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.

Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.

And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.